US Patent Issued to University of Louisville Research Foundation on Sept. 1 for "Robot skin apparatus, method of fabricating a robot skin apparatus, and a system including a robot skin apparatus" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,307, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Robot skin apparatus, method of fabricating a robot skin apparatus, and a system including a robot skin apparatus" was invented by Joshua R. Baptist (Louisville, Ky.), Mohammad Nasser Saadatzi (Louisville, Ky.), Zhong Yang (Louisville, Ky.), Ruoshi Zhang (Louisville, Ky.) and Dan O. Popa (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot skin apparatus includes polymer membranes encapsulating a pressure sensor. The sensor includes piezo-sensitive material in contact with a pair of electrodes in spaced relationship to for...